Gender studies: women and girls Books

A must-read for anyone embarking on the spiritual path to awakening – Donna DolanBloom & Burn is the transformational chronicle of a spiritual seeker’s quest to answer two very important questions: Who am I and why am I here?In this...

Tinder Lucida provides an archive of images produced as part of my three year social media project that took place on my personal Facebook page. I began regularly capturing mobile phone selfies posing as various personas, employing the Tinder dating app...

Winds of Change TrilogyNo Happy ValleyAs the Lawrence family struggles to establish a farm in Kenya's 'White Highlands' against a backdrop of great social and pollical upheaval in Kenya, Peter Lawrence falls in love with Rafiki, a black woman.Forced...

Dr. Lisette Garcia is an experimental psychologist, human rights activist, Buddhist scholar, and Latina percussionist. Her first book, "Poderosas: Conversations with Extraordinary Women," is a series of stories that take place between Dr. Garcia, her...

GIRL TO CITY follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitué to fledgling musician to cult singer-songwriter who caused a sensation with...

This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the...

This study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes's writing. The main contribution of this innovative and scholarly work is the...

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According to medical and scientific views of the period, the...

By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of...

This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. This book takes what some...

Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which...

Scholars of academic sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only men's...

In 1999, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex whilst simultaneously decriminalizing its sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states, promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. In the context of its...

Between 1963 and 1986, eminent American anthropologists Clifford and Hildred Geertz - together and alone - conducted ethnographic fieldwork for varying periods in Sefrou, a town situated in north-central Morocco, south of Fez.  This book...

Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today's world. This volume -...

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly...

Explores representations of Joan of Arc in English culture from 1429 until the early nineteenth century, examining the factors that shaped retellings of her military successes and execution.

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographicalBest of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric LitA New York Times Editor's...

#1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground...

Legendary journalist Cokie Roberts' New York Times bestseller, Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families--and their country--proved just as...

Full of insights, exercises, and over thirty relatable stories, Spiraling Upward has transformed countless women's lives and won a Nautilus Gold and Silver Award. This expanded New Edition includes a new chapter, "Spiral Up for Dudes", to show men how...

The most courageous women are the ones fighting battles no one knows about.The Art of Breathing is a contemporary collection of poetry written for and inspired by women who have been oppressed and overshadowed in today's society. This collection deals...

Did you grow up believing in fairy tales of youth suggesting that you could have a "happily ever after" life story? Or maybe your experience was more along the line of someone telling you that you would have a wonderful life if you just (fill in the...

On August 8, 1952, at just twenty-six years old, Mengue learned, while in Zoetele where she had gone with her four young children, the youngest one just three months old, that her husband had been killed in a traffic accident in Yaounde. Dulu, which...

My name is Gloria Marcella Perry-Hewitt, and my birthplace is Saint Mary, Jamaica. The Lord gave me the vision to write this book. I would like for everyone to read this inspirational novel. While you read my book, you will be able to witness the journey...

Agnes Ayres had been in films since 1914, starting out with the Essanay Company in Chicago. After years of being in one and two reelers at Vitagraph, Agnes caught the eye of produce Jesse L. Lasky, who made her a star and as reportedly became his...

Agnes Ayres had been in films since 1914, starting out with the Essanay Company in Chicago. After years of being in one and two reelers at Vitagraph, Agnes caught the eye of produce Jesse L. Lasky, who made her a star and as reportedly became his...

Carol Connors has lived her dream and she shares her remarkable success story in her wild ride memoir Elvis, "Rocky" and Me. As an entertainer Carol has done it all with her singer/songwriter talents recognized with two Oscar, five Emmy, one Grammy...

A Story based on true accounts of a Reporter who is kidnapped and then loses memory, will she be able to find the truth behind her lost memory?Dive into the captivating depths of "The Girl in the Well," a mesmerizing bestseller that will send shivers...

Cockatiels are amazing birds. Beautiful, social, and never predictable, they make life fun for those blessed with their presence. In this two act comedy play, Laurel A. Rockefeller shows moments in her life with her birds in Act I and with people in Act...

Feminist solidarity rises to a whole new level of meaning in this darkly humorous take on the ultimate disposal method for the irredeemably awful husband.Juno and Lulu, former drug-abusing teenage bad girls, have come a long way. They're older now, more...

"Women Entrepreneurs in the Modern World" delves into the dynamic landscape of female entrepreneurship through a comprehensive lens. From tracing historical trajectories in Chapter 1 to envisioning the future in Chapter 16, this book navigates the...

Review by Annelise LordsPrompts are everywhere and are in everything. It comes in different names too. Signals, intuition, gut feelings, fear etc., depending on your circumstance and or situation in life. A writing Prompt sparks creativity sending many...

"La question féminine" d'Edward et Eleanor Marx Aveling est un ouvrage qui aborde les problématiques liées à l'émancipation des femmes au XIXe siècle. Écrit par le couple Aveling, tous deux engagés dans les mouvements socialistes et féministes de...

A Pearl Necklace is the compelling true story of a Chinese American's struggles and victories strung together throughout life, weaving sorrows, joys, and lessons learned to create a beautiful masterpiece of inspiration and brilliance. Mi Xue was born in...

O Diário de Anne Frank, publicado originalmente em 1947, se tornou um dos relatos mais impressionantes das atrocidades e horrores cometidos contra os judeus durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A força da narrativa desta adolescente - que mesmo com sua...

Este estudio recorre los principales términos clave y referencias que componen el universo literario de Jorge Semprún, con el objetivo de facilitar la comprensión de una obra caracterizada por la intertextualidad y la expresión de los principales sucesos...

This study proposes an epistemological model on the basis of a streamlined and heavily modified German Idealism. Applying my model to the work of Charles Baudelaire, I conclude that the specific conditions of material modernity produce an epistemological...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Führung und Personal - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Internationale Fachhochschule Bad Honnef - Bonn, Veranstaltung: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Analyse soll...

When, why and how can religion and culture be both sources, and places of expression for fundamentalisms, particularly in relation to politics? Those are the central questions asked throughout this book alongside a discussion on the result when religion,...